Rachel

Came here to say exactly this (without the apology).

Yup. Mr DR and I should be prime candidates for shifting rightwards but with this incarnation of the Tory party? You must be joking!

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today.

on.ft.com/3KOUh07

Key para.

(The only Chaucer quote I can still remember…)

“And sodeynly anon this Damyan. Gan pullen up the smok, and in he throng.”

Like this?

“And sodeynly anon this Damyan.
Gan pullen up the smok, and in he throng.”

#merchantstale

Page one was enough for me. Fortunately (and unusually) I bought for 99p on kindle, so it takes up zero space on my shelves.

And even then the current ones seems to have forgotten the ‘Unionist’ bit.

The only thing today's Conservative leaders have in common with Margaret Thatcher is the party's name.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

This whole thread is my jam.

Ah, the old days!

If only the anti-EU left hadn’t been running the Labour Party back in 2016… #doublewhammy

See also: the number of people claiming Universal Credit has soared over the past five years. Yes, because it has been and still is government policy to move people off legacy benefits and on to UC. 🤦‍♀️

Whereas stealing artists’ work is killing their industry, so…

Sadly so.

Also, wtf is British language? Is it Breton? Or is it the ‘Mickey Mouse’ English that Badenoch says we can’t study any more?

Turns out that studying English Literature is not British enough for Badenoch.

And in local news, Heavers is closing down. Heavers has been going since 1960, working on windows across #Dorset, including my own. This is a brave and honest statement about a really sad development which shines a direct light on our times. www.heavers.co.uk

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

Why doesn’t Jenrick just join a party whose values he actually shares instead of competing with Badenoch over the quickest way to disembowel the Tories?

You’ve got to feel for Jenrick*

He so clearly wants to be with like-minded bigots in Reform, and yet that would be the kiss of death for his leadership ambitions. His ego won’t let him make the leap.


*Actually, no: you haven’t got to feel for him. Unless that feeling is loathing.

British food: what, like pizza, kebabs and chicken tikka masala?

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Said values appear to be not paying tax, and treating others as chattels or slaves.

The idea of leaving the ECHR isn’t patriotic anymore than Brexit or flag-shagging is patriotic.

It’s the bolt-hole of a quisling, noxious to both the economy and to social cohesion.

It’s more snake-oil, more kittens and rainbows, more blank canvas on which to stitch dreams best left unspoken.

Anywhere up to the end of the May premiership and Jenrick’s feet wouldn’t have touched the floor.

Heath sacked Powell when other members of the shadow cabinet threatened to quit.

Anyone in the current shadow cabinet prepared to make the same case or is this comment fine?

I was going to say ‘just buy the skirt’ and then I saw the price tag…

HIPS revisited.